i see the frustration but blame sheens...he sacked 2 front rowers for a backrower....
now we are stuck playing blair in the front row and have to use bell/moors and cashmere every wk
sheens needs to put his hand up and say he fucked up.... we have no replacement for woods or galloway...

red dogg wrote:i see the frustration but blame sheens...he sacked 2 front rowers for a backrower....
now we are stuck playing blair in the front row and have to use bell/moors and cashmere every wk
sheens needs to put his hand up and say he [automatically edited] up.... we have no replacement for woods or galloway...

Actually just so u have ur facts right, woods and groat both got generous upgrades as well as purchasing Blair. It was the two upgrades that forced the club to release the aging Gibbs and knucklehead fifita

red dogg wrote:i see the frustration but blame sheens...he sacked 2 front rowers for a backrower....

Which we needed especially with Ellis going. Blair has been so bad though that I think we need to go all out and get another backrower. We need someone who can run it hard on the edges. Blair isn't that player.

I'd play him at prop for the rest of the year but try to get rid of him a.s.a.p. He should probably be on the bench and get 30 minutes a game. What a waste.

To be totally honest, I was never really keen on us signing Blair in the first place. I didn't say anything publicly because everyone else was so excited, but I never really saw all that much in him when he was with Melbourne either.

We paid elite money for a sub-elite player. We couldn't get Inglis, Slater, Smith or Cronk so we settled for Blair, but paid what we would have paid for the elite Melbourne players. I was never confident, but I naively put faith in the club that "they knew what they were doing".

Blair is seriously challenging Sandow as the worst buy of the year, and he spent most of the year in NSW Cup!

Look no one is happy that he's getting paid so much to do zero to nothing compared to a player earning less putting heart and soul into his game.
But he's here until 2015 and Sheens knows that he's not performing (hopefully?) and the best we can do is continue to develop him into our style of play. He's plays off the bench then he's a weak impact player.
May take a year for him to integrate into our team but if he's roaring and ready for 2013 then I say bring it on!